Jack Valenti, who was president and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America for nearly 39 years and who created the movie ratings system of G, PG and R, died today at age 85. I always respected the man, and devoted most of a chapter to him in my book Darknet, even if I […]
Help us name a new politics channel
Today a few of us met in San Francisco to begin planning the contours of a new online political speech channel for the 2008 election. (Picutred from left, Dave Toole of Outhink, yours truly, Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive, Doug Kaye of the Conversations Network and Morty Wiggins of Outhink.) The idea is a […]
Bobby turns 8
Here’s my kid Bobby at his 8th birthday party last night. He’s got my coloring as well as my (not always welcomed) tendency to feel things deeply and emotionally.
From wolf to dog
Happy to Earth Day! I remember taking part in the first Earth Day in the ’70s in New Jersey by helping set up a recycling program when I was just a pup. To mark the day, tonight I watched Planet Earth on the Discovery Channel and Nature on PBS. Tonight’s Nature focused was titled Dogs […]
Web 2.0 Expo: Copyright risks
(Photo of Fred von Lohmann at ETech last month by Scott Beale — I was exhausted today so didn’t bring my camera!) The most interesting session of Day Four of the Web 2.0 Expo today, for me, was the presentation by Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Fred von Lohmann about copyright risks. Fred (whom I devoted […]